Will Durant
Will Durant (born November 5, 1885, North Adams, United States; died 1981), was an American historian, philosopher and writer. Durant's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom and Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Will Durant’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rooster, with 
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Will Durant’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Will in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~46,610
Americans share it since 1880
1888
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Will’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Will, according to the stars
Core essence
Will does not do surface. The core of Will is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Will is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Will wants to be loved
Will wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Will and watch them fall for you again.
How Will creates
How Will makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Will builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Will is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Will is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Will fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Will's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Will Durant in 15 seconds
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Will Durant's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 5, 1885, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Will Durant was born on November 5, 1885, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Will Durant's birth date, November 5, 1885, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Will’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Will Durant's date-only chart is Venus square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Will Durant combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Will’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Will Durant, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Will’s affections grind against their growth.
stableVenustrineMars0.2° to 0.8° orb
Will’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.3° to 1.9° orb
Will’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.0° to 3.3° orb
Will’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.4° orb
Will’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareMars2.5° to 3.4° orb
Will’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrinePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
Will’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineNeptune3.6° to 3.8° orb
Will’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquarePluto3.7° to 4.2° orb
Will’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareNeptune3.8° to 4.3° orb
Will’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrinePluto4.2° to 4.4° orb
Will’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSuntrineSaturn4.8° to 5.8° orb
Will’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Will’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 15°24′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Will turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresScorpio 27°36′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Will is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosSagittarius 6°58′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Will attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 8°24′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Will is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 28°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Will is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Ceres square Mars 0.9°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.9°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Will’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Will is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Will’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Will Durant, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Will’s family here
One relative of Will Durant also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Will’s cards
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♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Will Durant, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Will’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q333911, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Bill Murphy, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Will Durant at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Quick answers about Will Durant’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Will Durant?
- Will Durant was a Scorpio: born November 5, 1885, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rooster.
- What was Will Durant's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 5, 1885 birth.
- What time was Will Durant born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Will Durant's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the November 5, 1885 birth date.
- What was Will Durant's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 5, 1885 birth date.
- Where was Will Durant's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Will Durant's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
